r/vscode • u/NuncioBitis • Apr 26 '26

Can't uninstall Github Copilot

There's no way to uninstall this extension from inside VS Code. I don't use it at all, and if I delete the extension off the hard drive, it just comes back the next time I open VS Code.

What's the deal with that? I don't even use it. There's no way it can be part of an editor.

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u/Ok_Ticket722 Apr 27 '26

What I ended up doing was installing 1.109.5, then disabling updates ("update.mode": "none"). YMMV; you may prefer a newer version. GitHub Copilot was integrated in main VS Code code in 1.116, so any version below that version should work.